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As organizations implement new IT applications, they need a way to author, monitor, synchronize, and maintain the data upon which those systems rely. Yet very few companies have a single, unified approach to data management. As a result, most organizations spend excessive time and money creating single-purpose staging databases for the creation and management of enterprise data.
The i2 Solution: i2 Master Data Management
i2 Master Data Management is designed to create a single enterprise thesaurus that can ensure data is consistently described, used, and stored within an organization. This approach can provide two key functions:
- Data management: can create a framework through which data is authored, monitored, and maintained
- Data synchronization: can ensure the coordination of business systems that touch the data
i2 Master Data Management can be deployed to create and maintain application-specific data; to consolidate data from multiple disparate systems; to cleanse, transform, and validate data; as well as to filter unwanted data.
Key components of i2 Master Data Management can include:
- i2 MDM for Planning Data: can manage data staging and maintenance for supply chain planning implementations
- i2 MDM for Product Information: can aggregate, standardize, and provide easy access to item and supplier information from multiple sources
i2 Master Data Management capabilities can include:
- Access to domain templates, including prepackaged data models, data management workflows, and role-based user interfaces
- Customizable data management and synchronization
- Graphical workflow management, data modeling, and management tools
- Integration with existing enterprise data systems
- Access to ISO 9000-certified i2 Data Services, including data audits, cleansing, and extraction
Benefits of i2 Master Data Management can include:
- Creation of synchronized, current data across information systems, improving business decisions
- Access to and visibility into data across multiple systems
- A single, trusted data thesaurus across the enterprise
- Reduced costs of IT and data maintenance
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